]]>https://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/%d0%b2-%d0%ba%d0%b8%d1%94%d0%b2%d1%96-%d0%be%d1%87%d1%96%d0%ba%d1%83%d1%8e%d1%82%d1%8c%d1%81%d1%8f-%d1%81%d1%83%d1%82%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%b2%d1%96-%d0%be%d0%b1%d0%bc%d0%b5%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%bd%d1%8f/feed/0beloschukSee the 50 Best Images Taken by Hubblehttps://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/see-the-50-best-images-taken-by-hubble/
https://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2015/04/27/see-the-50-best-images-taken-by-hubble/#respondMon, 27 Apr 2015 09:38:59 +0000http://beloschuk.wordpress.com/79/see-the-50-best-images-taken-by-hubble/TIME: The best space machines reveal their purpose with a single glance. The gangly, leggy lunar module could only have been a crude contraption designed to land on another world. A rocket, any rocket, could only be a machine designed to fly—fast, high and violently. And so it is with the Hubble…]]>

The best space machines reveal their purpose with a single glance. The gangly, leggy lunar module could only have been a crude contraption designed to land on another world. A rocket, any rocket, could only be a machine designed to fly—fast, high and violently.

And so it is with the Hubble Space Telescope—a bright silver, 43 ft. (13 m) long, 14 ft. (4.2 m) diameter cylinder, with a wide open eye at one end and a flap-like eyelid that, for practical purposes never, ever closes. Since shortly after its launch on April 24, 1990, that eye has stared and stared and stared into the deep, and in the 25 years it’s been on watch, it has revealed that deep to be richer, lovelier and more complex than science ever imagined.

Hubble started off sickly, a long-awaited, breathlessly touted, $1.5 billion machine that was supposed to change astronomy forever from almost…

Every story has already been told. Once you’ve read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

This quote from bestselling author Anna Quindlen came to mind as I pondered this week’s Writing 201 workshop on finding your angle. In this workshop, we ask participants to consider how best to tell their stories and approach their posts. The most memorable writers put their own spins on a topic, using their experiences to shape their stories.

In a way, this lesson on finding your story angle reminds me of a post in our Daily…

]]>https://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/revisiting-your-uvp-why-should-we-read-you/feed/0beloschukOn Shooting Down Civilian Airlinershttps://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/on-shooting-down-civilian-airliners-2/
https://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/on-shooting-down-civilian-airliners-2/#respondSat, 19 Jul 2014 10:15:11 +0000http://beloschuk.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/on-shooting-down-civilian-airliners-2/The XX Committee: Yesterday, a Boeing 777 airliner belonging to Malaysian Airlines fell from the sky over the war zone that is Southeastern Ukraine, killing all 298 souls on board. This was not an accident, rather the huge jet was shot down, very likely by a 9K37 Buk (SA-11 to NATO) mobile…]]>

Yesterday, a Boeing 777 airliner belonging to Malaysian Airlines fell from the sky over the war zone that is Southeastern Ukraine, killing all 298 souls on board. This was not an accident, rather the huge jet was shot down, very likely by a 9K37 Buk (SA-11 to NATO) mobile surface-to-air missile system. Based on current reports, U.S. intelligence believes that the kill shot came from Russian-backed militias in the Donetsk area, inside the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, which seems likely based on signals intelligence (SIGINT) intercepts made public by Ukraine’s Security Service, as well as the suspicious conduct of militia leaders themselves, who are controlled by Russian military intelligence. For Putin’s Kremlin, this is a public relations nightmare that will be impossible to evade. For Russian foreign policy, this is a genuine disaster, coming after a long string of victories in the Kremlin’s Special War in Ukraine. The…